whilst the angst of the society looms large over news channels, print and social media, the word on the street seeks justice. This anger is a necessity and Delhi has no dearth of it. Heck, the wrath that we unleash as road rage would alone suffice! As my incisors wait in earnest to tear through the flesh of the culprit ‘humans’, I hope this cause doesn’t cough up with the passing days but grows into a growl.
Dogs don’t know sin Read More »
“Instead of teaching tolerance and empathy towards animals, I have seen parents transfer their fear of animals to their children. So, when the adults are not around, and I’m walking Veeroo (my Red Setter), I encourage kids to come and make friends with him. On one such meet-and-greet occasion, one nine-year old girl asked me if I had got the “poison removed from the dog’s teeth”! I’ve never heard anything more bizarre and I’m sure the girl must have learnt this from her parents or adults around her! Sheesh
New York Times on Indian stray dogs: Crassly unfair Read More »
Almost every fortnight I get that odd adoption update- family abandoning an old dog/ Mr. Highflyer leaving for foreign shores and putting up pet for adoption and so forth.
Out of an average life span of a decade, someone gives you unadulterated love for every passing second and you got the nerves to call it quits?
Life, Interrupted – I adopted your dog today Read More »
There would be times when you would come across incidents where a dog has been abandoned by a family. The reason may be because of an injury the dog suffered, a disease that he caught, re-location of the family because of job changes etc. If you divulge into the deeper details, all these are merely lame excuses. If you get a dog, remember it’s family! And you don’t really shun a family member on the above accounts. It’s rather better to not have adopted a pet than to treat him as a commodity destined for the same fate as that of a tawdry fashion item. My nostrils flare when such gross news are reported. Please understand that it’s a beating heart full of love, loyalty & friendship that you have adopted. There are responsibilties that you must live upto. Please, remember that you are the harbinger of joy and the elixir of life for the muted species.
You are the hope and he is the heart!
Before you adopt a dog – Promises that you must keep Read More »
India offers some of the strangest set of contrasting juxtapositions when it comes to wildlife. With animals being an integral part of the celebrated cultural and religious ethos, it comes as no surprise when one comes across temples where milk is offered to snakes or abodes where monkeys and langurs are as much a part of the milieu as devotees. In the heartland of India, one can see ladies offering the ‘rotis'(chapati) to cows and stray dogs. It is the land where animals are embedded so deep in the religion that half the deities have an animal as their preferred mode of transportation.
Elephant is declared as the ‘national heritage animal’ of India.
No country For Elephants? Read More »
